Microsoft Office for iOS and Android Arriving in November?

[powers74]

Excel is IMHO one of the most important breakthrough in human productivity in the last decades. It is a totally amazing piece of software.

Wasn't the first spreadsheet ever on a Mac?

Either way, why wouldn't they? They're in the business of selling software.

 

[MRU]

Wasn't the first spreadsheet ever on a Mac?

Either way, why wouldn't they? They're in the business of selling software.

Yep and Office was actually on Mac before PC

 

[boy-better-know]

Please sync with Office for Mac or completely pointless.

 

[gpat]

Just what I need. Something to make my iPad run insanely slow and hog the RAM.

PowerPoint is the worst thing that's ever happened to visual literacy.

Can we just have the ability to add fonts to iPad? That'd be great. Thanks.

PowerPoint is a standard in most business environments, and a great tool for getting its work done, unless the user puts in his/hers slideshow a plethora of transitions and special effects like a 16-year old high school cheerleader does.

 

[kazmac]

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Having Word available for the iPad would be a helpful option. I'm not a Microsoft fan, but I'm far more comfortable with Word than Pages.

So we'll see what happens.

 

[rhett7660]

For me, the two things that count with Word are the review function and also the ability to insert references... without them (goes for Pages too), the iPad remains a media consumption device, rather than the creative tool I had hoped for...

You should try doctogo.

 

[Marx55]

If Microsoft made PowerPoint for iOS, that would be the ultimate presentation tool.

Apple should support or even make a Bluetooth (low energy) remote control for the iOS devices like the iPad and even the iPod touch and iPhone. That would be awesome for Keynote presentations. Something like this, but for iOS devices:

Keyspan Wireless Presentation Remote for Conferences, Boardrooms and Classrooms
http://www.tripplite.com/en/products/model.cfm?txtSeriesID=847&txtModelID=3904

 

[mrgraff]

Yep and Office was actually on Mac before PC

The first spreadsheet was called VisiCalc for the Apple ][. Not exactly a Mac, but yeah Apple first.

Excel is IMHO one of the most important breakthrough in human productivity in the last decades. It is a totally amazing piece of software.

I literally owe my career and livelihood to Excel.

 

[goinskiing]

Excel is IMHO one of the most important breakthrough in human productivity in the last decades. It is a totally amazing piece of software.

Yes and no. I can't refute the positive impact Excel has had and is a very powerful tool. With that being said, it's a totally amazing piece of software with some UI caveats: it's the only application where you can't drag the window from full screen in Win7 (why?!) and I very much dislike the ribbon, but the one that gets me the most is the how there is only one instance of Excel opened and it opens up each spreadsheet within that instance, windows in windows, drives me freakin' batty at work. I know you can change this behavior by hacking the registry, but really, I have to hack the registry (don't get me started on that) to get it to perform the way I want. Ugh...

 

[driftless]

It's worthless if it doesn't sync with Macs/iCloud.
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Dropbox

 

[jonnysods]

Documents To Go has been great for me. I wouldn't bother trying to edit slides on my iPad. I'd rather have a 11" MBA to do it on.

 

[joshsage]

I hope they don't price it that high. I don't think it's worth more than $9.99 an app. Especially because there are sure to be compatibility issues.

Really? I get minimum 35/hr doing my work in excel. I would gladly pay 80 so I can do the work on my iPad or iPhone when I need to. Sign me up. I don't know what you are doing w/ yours, but these are worth it for OFFICE apps.

 

[JHankwitz]

It would be totally irresponsible for Microsoft to not create MS Office for tablets. They'll likely launch it at a very low cost and simple to use until it becomes the defacto standard, then fill it with bloat, complexity, and raise the price as they have done in the past.

 

[Renzatic]

It would be totally irresponsible for Microsoft to not create MS Office for tablets.

Hence why it's going to come standard with all Windows RT tablets.

 

[JHankwitz]

There's a lot of money for MS to make with iOS Office, but they might want to keep it exclusive to Windows 8 for a competitive advantage.

Microsoft is basically a software company, so how would limiting its software distribution possibly be a 'competitive advantage'?

BTW, it was through their Office licensing with Apple that they were ultimately able to legally copy the Mac GUI to create Windows. I understand that the lawyers ruled that because of the way the contract was worded, the use of the GUI was not restricted to MS Office software. If that contract been worded as intended, there would never have been an MS Windows.

 

[markcres]

It's worthless if it doesn't sync with Macs/iCloud.

Plus, no doubt, it will be vastly overpriced like most of their products.

Yeah...unlike Apple who never overprice anything.

 

[Steelgrave]

Plus, no doubt, it will be vastly overpriced like most of their products.

There's some irony considering this is an Apple themed forum lol.

 

[Dillenger]

This has got to be killing Steve Balmer as he thought the iPad was, "well not something many people would buy." Nothing like eating a little bit of crow.

 

[olowott]

Enough with these rumours, we just wanna hear it is out in the app store.....simples

 

[Haarith :)]

At least fix the issues of microsoft office on mac rather than creating one on the ipad -_-

 

[Renzatic]

BTW, it was through their Office licensing with Apple that they were ultimately able to legally copy the Mac GUI to create Windows. I understand that the lawyers ruled that because of the way the contract was worded, the use of the GUI was not restricted to MS Office software. If that contract been worded as intended, there would never have been an MS Windows.

Not quite. Apple licensed its GUI concepts to Microsoft for use in Windows 1.0, not Office for the Mac.

 

[Blomkvist]

For me this is a deal breaker for using the iPad at work. That is if it fully maintains formatting etc when editing documents created on a PC. To date the apps available cause me more problems.

I hear you. Heck, I have MS Office on my iMac and still have formatting issues when I take files from the iMac to my office laptop.

 

[NAG]

Dropbox

Actually it will probably use Skydrive.

 

[AustinIllini]

Please sync with Office for Mac or completely pointless.

This is the gospel truth. I see PowerPoint for iPad as a useful tool, but I can't imagine spending serious computer hours with word or excel with no native Office for Mac sync.

 

[blow45]

Not over their dead bodies it's not coming in November, ms won't shoot itself on the foot when they are selling office for enterprise and home via windows for arm and they are releasing them then...